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hightail it
verb as in hightail
verb as in hotfoot
verb as in skedaddle
Example Sentences
In most cases, drivers might hightail it out of there.
Eventually, Berkoff couldn’t stand it any longer and, in a fury hightailed it to LAX in a rental car that bore the dents of his anger, leaving the production without a Goldberg.
I turned down the film, broke up with John and hightailed it out of town.
The brief video ends with the deer hightailing it away from the school.
“By last night my arm was incredibly swollen, red and hot,” Gilbert continued, before adding that when she called her doctor, he suggested she “hightail it to the ER.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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